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HE 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes winner represents the same combination of Al Shaqab and Tally-Ho Stud that has successfully launched the stallion career of Mehmas, one of 2020’s brightest sire prospects. By the top-class miler Paco Boy, who duelled with the brilliant Goldikova, Galileo Gold was classy juvenile winning the Group 2 Vintage Stakes over 7f at Goodwood and beaten less than 2l into third in the Group 1 Prix Jean Luc Lagardère for Hugo Palmer. He made his seasonal debut at three in the 2,000 Guineas and defeated a field which included European champion two-year-old Air Force Blue, Ribchester and Marcel. Galileo Gold was forced to settle for second in the Irish 2,000 Guineas behind Awtaad, but was back in the winners’ enclosure in the St James’s Palace Stakes (G1) when he beat that rival as well as the Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner The Gurkha. His Coolmore rival overturned him in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes, beating Galileo Gold by a neck with Ribchester in third, ahead of Group 1 winners Toormore, Lightning Spear and Awtaad. Both sides of Galileo Gold’s pedigree boast positive pedigree influences – Paco Boy is from the outstanding Green Desert sire line which has produced stallions of the calibre of Oasis Dream, Invincible Spirit and Cape Cross, while he is out of a Sandhurst Prince mare, the same broodmare sire as Dandy Man, sire of four Group/Grade 1 winners and counting from the Danehill branch of Danzig’s line.
On his dam’s side, he hails from the family of the outstanding Montjeu, who is a half-brother to his third dam, the unraced Cuixmala (Highest Honor). She is also a half-sister to Cumbres, the dam of Group 1 Irish 1,000 Guineas and Moyglare Stud Stakes winner Again and Aris, the Listed-winning dam of Group 1 Prix de la Foret winner Aclaim, who also has his first yearlings this year. His dam is an unraced half-sister to Goldream, an Oasis Dream gelding who won the King’s Stand Stakes and Prix de l’Abbaye (G1). Galileo Gold retired as a five-year-old where he was warmly received by breeders and covered a book of 132 mares. Buttonhole, a Montjeu half-sister to the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile winner Red Bloom, has a yearling filly by Galileo Gold. Another member of that family with a Galileo Gold yearling is Red Fuschia, who also foaled a filly in 2019. His fillies were popular with the three most expensive foals of the year all fillies, and all bought by Tally-Ho. The top price was €80,000 at Goffs November for Ringfort Stud’s half-sister to 2019’s Group 2 Gimcrack and Champagne Stakes winner Threat from the family of Ulysses. Esker Lodge sold a half-sister to Listed winners Flaming Speer and Taqseem and to Desert Blossom, second in the Group 2 Rockfel Stakes and the dam of Listed winner Duneflower, while the Royal Ascotwinning breeder Robert Norton bred the third most expensive first crop foal. She is a half-sister to the Group 3 Flame Of Tara Stakes winner Sea Of Grace, who made €50,000 consigned by Newtownbarry House Stud.
Galileo Gold foal sales: descending price order (gns) Horse
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ch,f. ex Flare of Firelight (USA) (Birdstone (USA)) (24th March 2019) ch,f.ex Elshamms (GB) (Zafonic (USA)) (13th February 2019) ch,f. ex Lady Dettoria (FR) (Vettori (IRE)) (17th March 2019) b,c. ex Quickstep Queen (GB) (Royal Applause (GB)) (29th April 2019) ch,c. ex Vexatious (IRE) (Shamardal (USA)) (16th March 2019) ch,c. ex Zelie Martin (IRE) (Invincible Spirit (IRE)) (25th April 2019) ch,c. ex Ashwaq (GB) (Sepoy (AUS)) (27th January 2019) ch,c. ex Fondled (GB) (Selkirk (USA)) (20th April 2019) br,c. ex Empress Rock (IRE) (Fastnet Rock (AUS)) (22nd March 2019) ch,f. ex Almond Brook (GB) (Mayson (GB)) (16th February 2019) b,c. ex Race In Focus (IRE) (Vocalised (USA)) (2nd March 2019) ch,c. ex Marian Halcombe (USA) (Bernardini (USA)) (1st March 2019) b,c. ex Subtle Shimmer (GB) (Danehill Dancer (IRE)) (13th April 2019) ch,c. ex Spirited Charm (GB) (Invincible Spirit (IRE)) (1st April 2019) b,f. ex Rose of Mooncoin (IRE) (Brief Truce (USA)) (20th March 2019) ch,c. ex Shifting Place (GB) (Compton Place (GB)) (16th April 2019) ch,f. ex Village Gossip (IRE) (Pivotal (GB)) (27th March 2019) ch,c. ex Estrella Do Sud (IRE) (King’s Best (USA)) (9th May 2019) ch,c. ex Keeper’s Ring (USA) (Street Cry (IRE)) (7th May 2019) ch,c. ex Grand Treasure (IRE) (Aussie Rules (USA)) (7th April 2019) ch,f ex Simonetta (IRE) (Lil’s Boy (USA)) (24th March 2019) ch,f ex Of Course Darling (GB) (Dalakhani (IRE)) (18th February 2019) b,c. ex Joya Breeze (IRE) (Big Bad Bob (IRE)) (24th February 2019) ch,c. ex Prom Dress (GB) (Mount Nelson (GB)) (15th February 2019) ch,c. ex Lilium (GB) (Nashwan (USA)) (24th April 2019) ch,c. ex Green Oasis (USA) (Green Desert (USA)) (23rd March 2019) ch,f ex English Queen (GB) (Makfi (GB)) (15th March 2019) b,c. ex Nimbus Star (GB) (Nayef (USA)) (18th March 2019) b,f. ex Flashing Blade (GB) (Inchinor (GB)) (30th March 2019) ch,f ex Risk A Look (GB) (Observatory (USA)) (10th March 2019)
68,640 47,189 42,900 25,000 25,000 20,592 20,000 20,000 18,000 16,302 14,586 12,869 11,153 10,296 9,866 9,866 7,000 6,864 6,434 6,005 5,577 4,290 4,290 3,432 3,260 2,573 1,000 1,000 857 857
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